Well, the media would love for you to believe that this weekend’s “No Kings” protests were the most historic, inspiring, and “totally organic” uprisings of our time, a true grassroots tsunami against President Trump and everything he stands for. Millions in the streets, democracy hanging by a thread, MAGA villains shaking in their boots… at least, that’s the fantasy CNN cooked up.
But in reality? Not only was it a dud, it was funded. Heavily. We’re talking nearly $300 million pumped in by the same elite billionaires who constantly lecture the rest of us on “equity” while buying private islands and flying around in jets that burn more fuel in an hour than your pickup does in a year.
Thanks to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and political watchdogs like Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner, the receipts are out, and they’re ugly. The “No Kings” protests weren’t some spontaneous explosion of public outrage. They were choreographed, marketed, and paid for like a corporate product launch. The spreadsheet doesn’t lie.
Let’s break it down. George Soros’s Open Society Foundation led the charge with over $72 million in funding. That’s right, the man behind half the political chaos on planet Earth had his fingerprints all over this one. Mark Zuckerberg dropped a cool $50 million through the usual Tides and Arabella network intermediaries. Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire (and definitely not a U.S. citizen), chipped in $245 million through Arabella, which is basically the protest industrial complex’s headquarters.
https://twitter.com/seamusbruner/status/1978943049930604780
Bill Gates also played his part, funneling over $100 million through the Ford and Tides foundations. And Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO who thinks he’s a philosopher king, rounded it out with $20 million more.
Now here’s where it gets downright embarrassing. Despite nearly $300 million in donor cash, the media still had to dig into the archives and reuse 2017 protest footage to make it look like anyone showed up. That’s not a movement, that’s a marketing failure.
According to the MSM, 5 to 7 million people turned out. If you believe that (and you shouldn’t), that’s about $40 to $60 per person in billionaire-funded “rage.” And what did they actually achieve? Some weird guillotine signs, cringe costumes, and scattered street theater that fizzled out by sundown.
So yes, the left’s “biggest protest ever” was just another AstroTurf flop, bought, paid for, and still utterly pointless.
The MSM could show Soros and the others handing out cash and checks to the “protestors.” Dems and the MSM would applaud and cheer! Wow! They are heroes saving democracy!